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Surveillance on fish

vendredi 8 mai 2015 à 14:00

America Needs More Government Surveillance — On Fish.

Fish are not entitled to human rights, so surveilling them to any conceivable extent is not an injustice.

Market into personal relationships

vendredi 8 mai 2015 à 14:00

"Friendship", when quantified and managed on the internet, becomes a tool to introduce the market into personal relationships.

"Smart cities" in India

vendredi 8 mai 2015 à 14:00

India wants to build 100 "smart cities" on confiscated land, appoint businesses as their local governments, then require everyone in them to wear a tracking ID all the time.

"Smart" is a pretty face for "elitist, authoritarian and oppressive".

US-Korea trade agreement

jeudi 7 mai 2015 à 14:00

After the US-Korea "free trade agreement", US exports to Korea have decreased and imports from Korea have surged. In terms of national competition, the agreement was "bad for the US". In those same terms, you could say it was "good for Korea."

Veterans Administration whistleblowers

jeudi 7 mai 2015 à 14:00

Officials looked at the medical records of Veterans Administration whistleblowers, apparently looking for a way to discredit or harm them.